Table 2. Log2 expression levels of three candidate miRNAs in the discovery and validation sets by TLDA and qRT-PCR assays.
miRNAs | Methods, Subjects | Log2 expression levels Mean (SD) | Fold change | p | |
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HCC cases | Controls | ||||
miR-30c | TLDA, 20 pairs | 5.46 (1.97) | 3.05 (2.56) | 5.31 | 0.004 |
qRT-PCR, 20 pairs | 2.53 (1.88) | 0.93 (3.12) | 3.02 | 0.088 | |
qRT-PCR, 49 pairs | 0.37 (1.60) | 1.16 (2.11) | 0.58 | 0.038 | |
miR-150 | TLDA, 20 pairs | 5.18 (2.25) | 3.19 (2.15) | 3.98 | 0.008 |
qRT-PCR, 20 pairs | 3.17 (1.52) | 1.99 (1.67) | 2.27 | 0.052 | |
qRT-PCR, 49 pairs | 1.86 (1.49) | 2.55 (1.58) | 0.62 | 0.035 | |
miR-483-5p | TLDA, 20 pairs | 2.30 (2.52) | -1.74 (2.37) | 16.56 | 9.01E-05 |
qRT-PCR, 20 pairs | 0.67 (2.02) | -2.47 (2.21) | 9.41 | 0.0004 | |
qRT-PCR, 49 pairs | 1.68 (1.64) | -0.28 (1.37) | 3.88 | 7.43E-08 |